backspace at end of line

[Danny]

Only at the end of the line, backspace does not work. It does nothing.
This happens in Word 2007, both at home and in the office. Word 2003 was OK.
Any setting I missed, or is this a bug?

Any help will be appreciated,

Danny

 

[Peter T. Daniels]

What do you mean by "end of the line"? Word doesn't really have lines
-- just places where words wrap -- unless you've typed a Shift-Enter.

Where do you put your cursor when you try to backspace, and what do
you want backspacing to accomplish? It should simply delete the
character to the left of the cursor.

 

[Danny]

Sorry, I made a mistake. I meant not the backspace key, but the left arrow key:

At any place in a document, I hit the end key, so my cursor is at the end of
a line, any line. When I then press left arrow, nothing happens. The cursor
does not move. I have to either use the mouse, or (I am a keyboard person) go
up or down a line, go left with the arrow, and back to the line I was on.

 

[Peter T. Daniels]

Yes, that's definitely strange. Have you tried the mirror image? If
you use Home to go to the start of the line, does Right Arrow work?
After End, does Right Arrow take you to the next character, at the
start of the next line? After Home, does Left Arrow take you to the
last character of the previous line?

Is it possible that some of your movement keys have been made into
keyboard shortcuts for other functions?

 

[Danny]

Peter, thanks for trying to help.
All the other possibilities you mentioned work. After Home, left arrow does
take me to the end of the previous line, but then stops functioning.
No, there are no shortcuts built into this key.
As I said in my first post, this happens both at home and at the office, and
started as soon as I installed Office 2007. Even more strangely, I just
checked my kids' computer, and there all is well!
One thing that now comes to my mind, is that since I have quite a few
special shortcuts, tools and macros, when I installed 2007 I used my old
normal.dot from Office 2003 so as not to lose my customizations. But how do I
find which customization is the culprit?!

 

[Peter T. Daniels]

Ah, now you're out of my depth. Doesn't _seem_ like that would do it,
but you never know.